7 Ways It Pays To Move Backup To The Cloud

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Cloud-based solutions have become the gold standard for today’s backup, archiving and disaster recovery (DR). But what exactly makes cloud-based data backup so special? IT teams tasked with selecting and implementing new cloud solutions may be reluctant to ask this question, but the answers may be just what their CIO or CFO is looking for.

What’s So Great about Cloud Backup?

To boil it down, the unique capabilities of the cloud save companies a lot of money and enable data backup and governance activities that were never before possible. In addition to its use for backup, the enterprise can use cloud storage to address other key business areas such as DR, testing and development, and data analytics.

The public cloud in particular has become the application platform of choice for many organizations. By using the public cloud rather than hosted or dedicated cloud stor­age solutions, enterprises eliminate the costs of cloud-specific gateway hardware. The public cloud also offers global availability and can ingest and manage large volumes of data to scale as needed.

Cloud & Global Dedupe Were Made for Each Other

The functionality listed above is certainly appealing but keep in mind that the cloud doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but works in tandem with other technologies and solutions. Some technologies leverage the unique capabilities of the cloud better than others, with leading-edge deduplication technology a perfect example of this. Together, global dedupe and the cloud form a data backup powerhouse that massively reduces the enterprise storage footprint and achieves enormous cost savings.

The Ins and Outs of Cloud Backup

You probably have an intuitive understanding that cloud backup is the way to go; very few people these days are clamoring to retain their expensive and outdated legacy systems. Now let’s take a closer look at what cloud data backup can do for your organization.

Automatic tiering of data in the cloud substantially reduces overall costs by making warm data available for instant restores and automatically moving infrequently accessed data to less costly cold storage. Tiered backup architecture also enables the enterprise to more easily satisfy RTO and RPO requirements.

Standardize Availability, Costs, and Service Levels

Moving secondary storage workloads to the cloud provides companies with a global approach to data backup, availability and governance via a common, geographically shared platform. By adopting a single point of management across global infrastructure, companies can also better predict costs, more efficiently manage data, and achieve consistency in service levels, compliance and other processes.

These 7 points will show you—and your CIO and CFO—how to dramatically reduce the overall storage footprint of your organization and slash costs while gaining the efficiencies of the cloud. If your organization is growing, processes large volumes of data, or is required to comply with regional data privacy laws, click here for more information on cloud backup. Learn more about Druva’sconsumption-based pricing and how it can lead to unprecedented cost savings for your organization.

We also invite you to take ourStorage Consumption Challenge available through June 30, 2016. We’re so confident that our technology can reduce your overall backup storage footprint by more than half, we’ll give you a $100 Amazon gift certificate if we can’t.

Jennifer Burnham

Jennifer is Content Lead at Abbott Vascular. Her focus is to create content that educates and delights. Her previous roles include Content Producer at Apple, a Go-To-Market lead at Adobe, and Director of Social Media and Content Strategy at salesforce.com.